On 2004.04.27, 07:41, Cristian Secar� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the other hand, a passive presence of a valid [extremely rarely > used] character that can be obtained by an <existing_dead_key> + > <existing_character_on_keyboadr> is not such a catastrophic thing > either,
OTOH, it seems to be a good thing, IMHO. In the usual pt-PT keyboard, f.i., we have five dead keys (�`�~^) and these support a lot of characters that are NOT used in Portuguese spelling: ������������. Indeed all combinations of those five combining characters with any base letter present in ISO:8859-1 are implemented, allowing for correct spelling of French, Italian, Dutch and English, plus also Castillian (but for "��") and German (but for "�"). Nothing catastrophic about this! P.S.: With Keyman I extended this to all possible combinations (using precomposed Unicode chars when avaliable, for the time being), adding also other diacriticals (hacheck, brachia, macron etc) to RAlt + dead keys. Too bad Keyman still messes the NumPad for pt-PT keyboards. :-( -- ____. Ant�nio MARTINS-Tuv�lkin | ()| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |####| PT-1XXX-XXX LISBOA N�o me invejo de quem tem | +351 934 821 700 carros, parelhas e montes | http://www.tuvalkin.web.pt/bandeira/ s� me invejo de quem bebe | http://pagina.de/bandeiras/ a �gua em todas as fontes |
